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Parvana es una chica afgana que acaba de perder a su padre. Sola, emprende la búsqueda del resto de su familia por un país desolado por la pobreza y la guerra. En su camino encontrará a otros dos niños, Asif y Leila, y a un bebé. La historia de Parvana (protagonista, también, de El pan de la guerra, alandar 8) ofrece una visión honesta y solidaria de la situación en Afganistán, y del coraje y la esperanza de unos niños que luchan en circunstancias muy difíciles.
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About Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis has achieved international
acclaim with her courageous and dramatic books that give Western readers a
glimpse into the plight of children in developing countries. She has won the
Governor General’s Award, Sweden’s Peter Pan Prize, the Ruth Schwartz Award,
the University of California’s Middle East Book Award, the Jane Addams Children’s
Book Award, and the Vicky Metcalf Award. A long-time feminist and anti-war
activist, she is best known for The Breadwinner Trilogy, which has been
published around the world in seventeen languages, with more than a million
dollars in royalties donated to Street Kids International and to Women for Women,
an organization that supports health and education projects in Afghanistan. In
2006, she was named to the Order of Ontario.